I love how Arcane mage is playing in TWW S2. However, instead of aura buffing it I think it could be totally fixed with a few talent buffs. Dematerialize is 1-2% overall in a key.
Buff Arcane Echo and Dematerialize by like 200%, and Arcane rebound by a bit less.
Consider swapping Dematerialize with Arcane Rebound in the tree
Our “Mini-burn” would feel much better in aoe with arcane echo being strong for 8 targets, Arcane rebound improving our aoe cap problems, and dematerialize being strong will help the right side be more useful for pure ST.
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I’ve made a number of change suggestions, but I think for M+ the key to fixing Arcane will be to unchain Energy Reconstitution (it’s RPPM based) and and buff Arcane Rebound.
Buffing Dematerialize some (and making it a shorter duration to keep Reconstitution from scaling out of control without RPPM) would also be a plus.
I think Reconstitution would be a really cool capstone AoE talent without RPPM and just mass exploding everywhere whenever you Barrage cleave.
I did not like Dematerialize. Especially since arcane mages are stacking haste these days instead of crit. Also beware. Some guides like wow head recommend stacking vers. Vers is a garbage stat compared to mastery. Do not do that. Mastery is your primary over haste. I am trying out savant all the way to echo arc blast.
Dematerialize is just free extra damage. It doesn’t matter what stats you are stacking.
Vers is fine for us - in fact all four stats are pretty close in value for us meaning we generally want some of all four stats. I need enough haste to comfortably fit in an Arcane Missiles prior to Barraging when Intuition procs as my playstyle has me banking a charge of Clearcasting so I can maximize my Barrage DPS whenever Intuition and Incandescence proc. Otherwise I am mostly mastery with a fair amount of crit and vers.
30 haste percent is your goal.